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The Return of the Curse of the Creature's Ghost

Dec 5, 1997
The guys have a dispute in trying to gain their acting teacher's (Moe Phelps, played by Bob) support, as he doesn't consider them a success despite having a television series on HBO. Moe finally caves in right as the care-free janitor arrives to cheer up the darkness of a lonely night's work.
A heavy metal band, Titanicca, sings songs about how great it is to commit suicide. But when one little boy tries (and fails miserably), the band must stomach the outcome in visiting the tragic young man that took a bath in some burning acid, contorting his entire body below his neck to the point of looking like a sick Muppet.
A class of nitwits discuss the latest horrow craze, "The Return of the Curse of the Creature's Ghost," as their teacher tries to make them settle on a destination site for their next roadtrip. They settle on taking a trip up the teacher's mother's ass, and boy, do they have fun or what!

Episode 309

A White Man Set Them Free

Nov 28, 1997
To gush in more of their favored hate mail, Bob and David decide to have a good old fashioned Mr. Show Cracker Barrel, where they go on to tell the "red man" that they forgive him for murdering their daughters, and saying "You're welcome" to African Americans. They receive a sarcastic letter that they misread as a compliment, upon heavy disappointment.
The biosphere is a very sacred ground where scientists can investigate the sensitivity of the Earth's atmosphere. A very lonely, ugly scientist tries his best to get lucky with one of the few female researchers, but they've all got dates, so he turns to his animal friends for sweet lovin' on a lonely night.
The world's last living Indian lives alone on a small property that's slowly getting smaller by the day, and as he's aging towards 100, he's looking to repopulate his race. The Mr. Show guys throw him a big party, which he enjoys thoroughly before littering their stage... to the tears of the janitor.

Episode 308

It's a No-Brainer

Nov 14, 1997
A couple of professional protesters protest Mr. Show and succeed. This gives them big heads and even bigger goals, as they successfully protest paying for meals, cars, sex, and more until they finally reach the top of a company they once protested against. They protest several protesters protesting their new company and win that war, to boot.
A crafty group of newscasters make the news themselves by killing innocents and each other to get the breaking scoop ahead of all other stations, while an overzealous communist scare expert of the 1950s apologizes for his big goof-ups in predicting certain things, like evil gnomes living inside of misbehaving children.
A couple of dimwits decide to create a charity like the Make-A-Wish Foundation to make the dreams of dying children come true. Sadly, they haven't a clue with what to do. Lastly, Satanists and Catholics protest the look and appeal of the cartoonish devils we see daily, saying they're too kiddish to be worshipped or feared.

Episode 307

Bush is a P*****

Nov 7, 1997
The hottest college comic in the history of college comics fills in for David with a broken leg. Meanwhile, Kedzie breaks a proverbial leg on stage, killing the crowd dead with his mediocre jokes and stage presence. Because of this, David fires Bob and himself.
News flash: human worth is no longer decided by the good deeds you do, or the lifestyle you live. Instead, if someone makes more money than you, they're better than you. Meanwhile, a man has troubles agreeing with his ex-siamese twin about their new separate paths, as his slacker brother wants re-attached.
A man suffers from the terrible disease of mediocrity, and it haunts him wherever he goes... In part because he's in the shadows of the Great Philouza, a talented classical musician that writes his songs by making noises with his mouth.

Episode 306

Goin' on a Holiday

Oct 31, 1997
Bob and David have invited their families to join them for the evening's show, but David is repulsed by the fact that Bob has an elderly family member. David insists that they're going to try to take over the world one day soon, and that Bob shouldn't trust his dear old grandfather.
NASA has designed the ultimate plan to liberate America from the moon's arrogance: they will blow the moon to smithereens! Everyone is for the moon getting blown up, including C.S. Lewis, Jr., a popular country music star. But when one ape that is sent on the mission to blow up the moon questions why exactly they're doing it, the whole country becomes outraged at the poor, fuzzy friend, so they hire a circus monkey to do the job instead.
A down 'n out streaker decides that he wants to become a professional streaker instead of a loser pasta maker like his father, but a rival streaker has the last word when he embarrasses him by making him put on clothing. They later become friends, until they're both eliminated in the future by the elderly take-over.

Episode 305

Please Don't Kill Me

Oct 24, 1997
Mr. Show vows to collect change for every swear word said on the night's program, and they kick things off with a reverend that does nothing but swear to God... literally. This leads straight into a skit where landlords battle it out via a war of words for who should rightfully attain a specific tenant.
The "Fad 3," a trio of young, hip Brits, get famous from their photographs being taken, but quickly burn out as most fads do. One of the members sells his ex-celebrity status to charity events, including a hunger strike, which leads straight into a commercial for a new type of mustard and mayonnaise that's combined to save you time!
Finally, the dreaded and feared Dr. X decides to destroy Earth once again, as he has for the past 20+ years, unless Earthlings can manage to donate millions upon millions of dollars to him. By donating the money, Dr. X promises not to destroy Earth... at least until next year's telethon.

Episode 304

Flat-Top Tony and The Purple Canoes

Oct 10, 1997
Mr. Show kicks off with a few "womyn" in the audience that don't take very kindly to Bob and David's offensive jokes against women, so they decide to hunt them down and murder them! The boys pull off a Beatles-like escape from the angry mob just in time.
A couple of rock bands based on Oasis and Marilyn Manson try to get along with the music video station's VJs once and for all. While Smush has problems in common conversation, Norma Jean Monster gets along great with their VJ on their hideaway in the woods... Meanwhile, some companions were separated from their young people. Or was it vice versa?
Nostradamus connects with a group of fashion designers, giving them visions of the future... in order to snag a date with one of the gay fellows. All is not well, however, as Nostradamus and his ability to predict the future gets in the way of their ill-constructed relationship.

Episode 303

Oh, You Men

Oct 3, 1997
Mr. Show films their intentionally "lost episode" in the third season, with an opening of Bob dangling a banana in front of the screen. The Mayor of Television stops by to send the episode into production, and we're quickly treated to a tribute to Mr. Show for the people of the future who discover the lost episode.
Wally P. Doyle, one of the very best ventriloquists in the ever-growing genre of CD sales, was gunned down by rival gang members in what is a mirror of the East Coast/West Coast gangsta rap battles. The men allow their puppets to go in to discuss ending this long, heated disagreement, but the puppets just aren't talking. Later on, a man passes a difficult lie detector test to get a job at a shoe store.
The Altered State of Druggachusettes, a popular 1960s children's program from the warped minds of Sam & Criminy Craffft, airs its lost episode, the one that got them banned from television in the first place. In it, drugs are referenced a hundred times over. The episode closes with monkeys in space going crazy for that banana at the beginning of the show.

Episode 302

Peanut Butter, Eggs and Dice

Sep 19, 1997
David comes out as a bald man to boost up the ratings for the week's episode. The guys can no longer wait with their anticipation, so they go visit the Ratings Man, who also happens to be Santa Claus. He tells them of a man holding him hostage for 500 years in his closet, and asks them to set him free. They do, and all hell breaks loose.
Meanwhile, the C*** Ring Warehouse is having a big sale, and allows folks to donate their used c*** rings to the homeless. Meanwhile, a friend is about to bust out the bad news to his best buddies: he's getting married. They respond by kicking the living crap out of him.
Ronnie Dobbs, the most arrested man in the world, is about to perform a musical based on his arrests, but beats the living daylights out of the camera man for not being able to sing properly--prompting another arrest. Finally, Bob Lamonta tells his childhood tale of growing up with two retarded parents, only to reveal that none of it was true... except he had a mustache.

Episode 301

Heaven's Chimney

Sep 12, 1997
David is absolutely enthralled with The Bob. The Bob is a supernatural leader of the latest (and trendiest) cult group, as they will eat poisonous s'mores at midnight to take a trip up Heaven's Chimney. The other cast members kidnap David and convince him that The Bob is not really a God, nor can he grant you into Heaven.
Crazy Religious Beliefs is a show that focuses on exactly that, and leads right into a couple that need for folks to watch them have sex, or else they just can't get into it. After bickering, they all agree to watch while Bob agrees to masturbate near a pie that's cooling.
The Devastator is the latest hip new rollercoaster to ride this summer, with only one problem... 99% of the people that get on it die from the 2 whole minutes under water along the tracks. Still, people flock to it faster than the Hail Satan Network, a new religious TV channel dedicated to praising the dark lord's name.

About This Show

Summary

Bob Odenkirk and David Cross know comedy. Hell, their friends and fellow castmates Brian Posehn and Patton Oswalt star in the Comedians of Comedy. They're bound to, because it only comes natural to them through their many parodies of timeless pop culture staples... and defective thumbtacks.
Ranging from a line of mock-up commercials, documentaries, products, and movie trailers, Mr. Show weeds out the funniest aspects of the absurdity of daily life, often going for both personal stories and satire against homosexual converts, P.C. Senators, and the occasional hippie.
Using only four sets of recurring characters about once per season over the four years it ran, Mr. Show delivered enough hearty laughs in excessive usage of dirty words as it did with clever slams against the paranoid and radical.